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contrast among the irises; and as for violas, those pansy-looking 

 things, they are among our best spring-flowering subjects. 

 Someone may say, " We cannot grow wallflowers in this country." 

 Yes, with a little trouble, we can. The seed should be sown in 

 July, the little plants twice transplanted and pinched back to 

 form stocky subjects; they should be wintered in cold-frames, 

 and bloom will not fail in late spring, or early summer after 

 these are set out in the open. Violas are like pansies in their 

 requirements, their habits : Mr. Cuthbertson's small book in the 

 "Present-Day Gardening Series," Pansies, Violas, and Violets, 

 has all the cultural points needed for growing these flowers, as 

 well as charming pictures in color of all three kinds. 



I am sending in an order for a few plants of that remarkable 

 new yellow rose offered this season in America for the first time. 

 Souvenir de Claudius Pernet. This rose is considered " the best 

 yellow rose so far introduced for the garden." It is a Pernetiana 

 seedling. Somewhere I have seen a complaint of its overthorny 

 stem; but what of that? The rose, from the descriptions and 

 from the plates, is of a lovely tone of clear yellow, and is said 

 not to turn white at the edges as, to our regret, many of us 

 have seen our yellow roses do. 



The coming distribution of this rose in our gardens must bring 

 to us, by its very name, feelings of friendship, admiration and 

 sympathy. As I have said. Souvenir de Claudius Pernet is a 

 seedling developed and named by the great Pernet himself, the 

 friend of our own Admiral Aaron Ward, who says of him, "Per- 

 net occupies indeed a position peculiarly his own in the esteem 

 of his fellow rosarians. Perhaps this will account for the very 

 widespread sympathy extended to him in these days of deep 

 personal affliction. His eldest son and intended successor, 

 Claude, a young man very much like his father in personal 

 charm of manner, was killed in battle, last October, and his only 



